John M Hilpert: 2 books
Campaigns and Hurricanes
A History of Presidential Visits to Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
When William McKinley traveled to Mississippi in 1901, he became the first US president to visit the state while in office. Though twenty-four men served as president prior to McKinley, none of them included Mississippi in their travel plans. Presidents in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...
American Cyclone
Theodore Roosevelt and His 1900 Whistle-Stop Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
When Theodore Roosevelt entered national politics as the Republicans' nominee for the vice presidency in 1900, he was only forty-one years old. However, he had caught the public's attention with the popular version of his life story. Child of East Coast privilege. Sickly, bespectacled youth. Naturalist...